I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can kid the world, but not your sister. CHARLOTTE GRAY Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. CHARLOTTE BRONTE As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul... CHARLOTTE BRONTE America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. CHARLOTTE BUNCH If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha... CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not... CHARLOTTE WHITTON But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus... CHARLOTTE BRONTE In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos... CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa... CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, CHARLOTTE BARNARD Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse... CHARLOTTE BRONTE One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con... CHARLOTTE BRONTE There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Look twice before you leap. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. 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